Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 2 | There must have been an involvement in something sufficiently profitable or menacing or both to lead somebody to murder . |
| 3 | He may feel anxious , depressed or moody as well as positive and excited . |
| 4 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 5 | The jaws are as a broad or broader than long . |
| 6 | The attitudes of authors of stories the young read or hear , whether prejudiced or condescending or exaggeratedly ‘ socially aware ’ , are readily perceived and are influential , even when they are half hidden . |
| 7 | Such precautions are less easy to ensure in DRAs where public services and technical assistance are usually less extensive or efficient than elsewhere . |
| 8 | Conciliation officers are often reluctant to express an opinion about the likelihood of success before the tribunal , but will make clear an opinion whether the case appears to them one which is strong or weak and so ought to settle . |
| 9 | With no image of hunting and killing in her ‘ mind ’ , with no hunger driving her , she does not express such intentions in her actions and demeanour — and the deer pick it up instinctively at both subtle or vibrational as well as gross physically observable levels . |
| 10 | When the National Curriculum was first unveiled , in the shape of Mr Baker 's celebrated ‘ Little Red Book ’ , I wrote a piece which began : ‘ If this were genuinely a consultative document , I should reply to its chief begetter that 20 per cent of it is potentially helpful , 20 per cent unexceptionable , and 60 per cent either foolish or dangerous or both ’ . |
| 11 | The car was wrong , Rufus 's clothes were wrong or funny or somehow unsuitable , he smoked too much , he was too fond of wine and his whole lifestyle left much to be desired . |
| 12 | This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can . |
| 13 | Courses can be instrumental or diversionary but not contentious . |
| 14 | The transactions demand for money arises because individuals receive their incomes weekly or monthly and yet have to pay for many of the goods and services they buy on a day-to-day basis . |
| 15 | ‘ There is all the difference in the world between withholding medical treatment that 's either painful or futile and deliberately withholding food . |
| 16 | But what I , we are not prepared to do , is allow the schools that we represent to suffer , just to maintain small schools in this county , which are no longer economical or viable or educationally beneficial to the children that attend them . |
| 17 | So what do we do about those pieces of music which are effectively our own property-which are so adolescent or tuneless or rebarbative or just mediocre that we ca n't justify wasting anyone else 's time with them — but which are important to us ? |
| 18 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 19 | It is essential for the efficiency of a modern financial system to analyse all the securities traded in it , since only then is it possible to determine whether securities are fairly priced or whether they are underpriced or overpriced and hence give rise to profitable trading possibilities . |
| 20 | Probably obsessive , which can be interesting or dangerous or indescribably boring ; sometimes all three . |
| 21 | It is clear that more than simply reproducing the words in their correct order is required . |
| 22 | If this is combined with the previous result of 40 per cent of places ‘ lost ’ in 1814 as against 1792 being Scottish the conclusion is that the 1814 petitioning was not only much more English than 1792 but even much more English south of the North Country . |
| 23 | In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable . |
| 24 | I speak English , French and Spanish but not the others mentioned , so I have had to be very open to inferring sociolinguistic information and to being wary of my own assumptions . |
| 25 | The taxpayer , however , contended that , on a literal reading , its meaning was clear and unambiguous and accordingly there was no alternative but to give effect to the express statutory language . |
| 26 | It was a miracle he thought , that the glass had not shivered in that tight struggle , but it was as clear and brittle as ever . |
| 27 | However , it is undeniably the case that the statute is less clear and concise than ideally it ought to be . |
| 28 | Anthea Darnell 's voice was as clear and confident as ever , the voice of a woman who was accustomed to receiving undivided attention from others . |
| 29 | But Soderstrom , introducing the songs set by set , was good company ; the recital hall at Blackheath , rescued from years of abuse by the government department that used to inhabit it , had a good sound and an airy Victorian grace ; and Roger Vignoles , the accompanist , was as clear and gifted as ever ; so the capacity audience wound up feeling happy , especially when treated to confident versions of Lehar 's Vilja Song or My Lips They Kiss So Hot . |
| 30 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |